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JULY 31, 2019

Together, the firms are developing a platform to enable faster, more secure cross-border corporate payments that would allow companies to more seamlessly move funds to beneficiaries and banks to directly share payment data with each other without the need for intermediaries.

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MARCH 23, 2016

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announced Tuesday (March 22) that it is joining forces with the European Card Payment Association (ECPA) to further the fight against global payment data theft. We’re looking forward to ECPA’s active participation on every level of the council.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Qatar National Bank (QNB) is looking into allegations that the names and passwords of many of its customers were compromised, Reuters reported on Wednesday (April 27). The largest lender in the Middle East and Africa by assets may have become the victim of a cybersecurity data breach. The Doha News website reported that 1.5

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MARCH 31, 2017

Global online discount apparel marketplace ZAFUL, based in China, recently announced new upgrades to its payment protocols and SSL checkouts to boost the security of its eCommerce system and grow confidentiality for its individual shoppers. These new upgrades make it easier to shop and also offer more payment options.”.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Miguel Rio Tinto, CIO at Emirates National Bank Dubai (Emirates NBD), offered another approach to DX: a ground-up, far-reaching overhaul that not only includes technological improvements, but requires a significant shift in mindset as to how a bank is actually viewed. “They need to move in that direction.”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Our customers increasingly rely on us to provide solutions that help make their systems safer and more secure,” said Johan Gerber, executive vice president, security and cyber innovation, Mastercard. Threat Scan is part of our multi-layered security strategy to secure the payments ecosystem,” said Johan.

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MAY 20, 2020

Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. This marked the first real-time payments regulatory framework in the region that addressed all EU countries. The ECB sees TIPS as more than just another real-time payments solution, however.

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JULY 16, 2020

The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of personal data to platforms in the U.S. Companies will have to choose between whether to move personal data to servers in Europe or stop doing business in the region. servers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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MAY 21, 2020

As politicians across the globe grapple with the pandemic’s continued economic fallout and the need to get stimulus funds to individuals, corporations and even local governments with speed and security, digital delivery of those dollars is likely to gain increasing traction. As reported in this space last month, the efforts are still nascent.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Digital banking firm Emirates National Bank Dubai (Emirates NBD) has rolled out its new businessONLINE platform, a new omnichannel platform for small businesses, a report from NSBanking.com says. The report says businessONLINE will work to "provide an all encompassing set of trade finance, cash and liquidity management solutions.".

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Using digital push payments can also help add security to B2B transactions, thanks to the cybersecurity measures that can be grafted into these processes. Many businesses are therefore on the hunt for instant payment systems that can help them send out disbursements or receive funds with the speed and security they need during the pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In perhaps the most sweeping example, the member states of the United Nations have embraced, as part of “sustainable development goals,” a target to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,” by 2030. The initiative will be on hold until the government enacts new laws that would safeguard data security.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. Different regions have their own unique payment rails, and no two abide by the same regulatory framework. So, what’s the problem?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Some national and regional markets are more willing to accept AR than others. Those numbers look pretty different by region. Businesses worldwide cited insufficient ROI, security concerns, lack of budget and lack of knowledge as the top barriers to adopting AR. The global security concern figure is 87 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The country was once a principal location for Wirecard's partner businesses in the region. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra also said on Sunday (Nov. 8) that three immigration officials had been formally charged and suspended for 90 days last month over Marsalek's travel records.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The cameras are also used to track Muslims coming in and out of mosques in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, which has led to the detention of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps. hit Chinese state-backed chipmaker Fujian Jinhua with an export ban, citing national security reasons.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

That’s because those threats are relatively localized, and don’t take into account the risk of hackers (especially those backed by organized militaries and nation-states) taking down key infrastructures. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal and state agencies, about cyberattacks against infrastructure.

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JULY 17, 2020

The Wall Street Journal reported the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission intervened to take over four insurers, three securities companies and two trust firms that managed a total of 1 trillion yuan ($143 billion) in assets. In a statement, the commission said it would take control of Huaxia Life Insurance Co.,

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

technology by “any means necessary” and that there are about 1,000 related investigations currently ongoing in the country, through its 56 regional offices, according to a report by Reuters. . High-profile targets like the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the Department of Energy’s National Laboratory were mentioned in the indictment.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

The latest news from the Open Banking ether stems from around the world, including the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions, as markets like Israel and South Korea take their first steps to develop and deploy Open Banking regulatory frameworks.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Since partnering two years ago, Visa and NovoPayment have advanced digital payments across the region. In addition, Visa Token Services was introduced to the region for payouts, peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and B2B money movement. It’s a testament of our proven enablement model and commitment to collaboration.”.

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JULY 17, 2020

He said that while small banks, credit unions (CUs) and regional players deeply fear being swept aside by the great digitalization wave that the pandemic has set off, their concerns aren’t actually unique to the financial industry’s smaller end. Instead, FIs must go digital in the ways consumers are seeking.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Kaspersky revealed that the malware, known as FinSpy or FinFisher, is a product usually sold to nation states and law enforcement agencies for surveillance. It appears that the hackers are targeting Middle Eastern politicians and United Nations officials in the region, opposition bloggers and activists, and regional news correspondents.

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JULY 3, 2018

As startups such as DadeSystems , FitPay and Jewel Paymentech expand across devices and functions, Tipalti , AvidXchange and Emailage announce new growth for their local, national and global footprints. Meanwhile, he said, consumers are getting over their initial fears around contactless payments usage and security. Chargehound.

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MAY 19, 2017

Even as some countries move away from physical currency in favor of more modern payment methods, demand in larger nations means the Asia-Pacific region is still clinging to cash. With China and India driving economic growth, countries in the Asia-Pacific region are estimated to spend some $8.1 trillion in cash payments in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In Berlin, where last week saw a two-day meeting of financial officials from Europe, central bankers discussed digital payments and the confines of digital, national currencies. The ECB commentary, we contend, solidifies at least some regional approaches to CBDCs, but retail use cases may be gaining favor.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

That does not mean older verification methods are obsolete, however: Many companies still rely on knowledge-based authentication (KBA) methods like passwords or security questions, even in areas like business lending — where stringent verification is crucial. Government-issued digital identities are not just the realm of sovereign nations.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Nation reported that B2B Connect is now being piloted by Thailand’s largest bank Kasikornbank. Managed by Visa end to end, Visa B2B Connect combines Visa’s core capabilities in security, governance and distributed ledger technology [DLT].” “We think we can accelerate that as an integrated solution.”

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JULY 1, 2020

As with all deployment patterns, the goal is to introduce the newly deployed system to the users with as least risk and in as secure a manner as possible. Channel traffic from specific user groups or regions to target server environment. Load Balancer. Depending on how the user population is segregated (e.g.

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MARCH 9, 2020

PYMNTS fielded a study to a national panel of 1,062 U.S. That said, some banking-like providers appear to be closing the primary banking services gap, particularly regional banks and credit unions (CUs). Ninety-two percent of consumers count their primary bank as either a national bank, regional/community bank or credit union.

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APRIL 29, 2019

This month’s Deep Dive explores how several nations and organizations are building cross-border interoperability and universality between real-time payments systems, as well as the challenges that need to be overcome to make worldwide faster payments a reality. Current Efforts . Disharmony.

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MARCH 6, 2019

On Friday (March 8), the world will recognize International Women’s Day — celebrated globally since 1975, when it was adopted as a holiday by the United Nations. Seventy-three percent of female founders reported “great difficulty” in securing enough capital to get their businesses off the ground.

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JULY 22, 2019

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Opportunity, he noted, abounds. But in markets like Mexico , the challenges are quite different.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

In addition, Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank unveiled a cross-border remittance service based on Alipay’s blockchain technology, Indonesia’s KinerjaPay notched an investment of $200 million from a construction firm in the region and mobile payments are on the rise in China.

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MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A former cryptocurrency exchange and its founder are facing charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency announced in a press release on Wednesday (Feb. Montroll operated an unregistered online securities exchange and defrauded its users by misappropriating their bitcoins.

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